Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...

A few best practices can go a long way toward protecting your Access data from careless or overly curious users. Here are some simple ways to add a few layers of security to a database. A few best ...

Application Parts is a template in Microsoft Access that can be added to an existing database to extend its functionality. An Application Part can be a table or include tables, forms, and also ...

Using Access to build a front end for SQL Server Your email has been sent What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your ...

FastObjects .Net brings object-oriented database technology to the .Net environment. Given that the majority of .Net database applications employ RDBMSes on their back end, you might wonder if it ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...